Buried Leverage: Social and Environmental Costs of Mining Critical Minerals
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Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Elements

Buried Leverage: Social and Environmental Costs of Mining Critical Minerals

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Extracting and processing critical minerals and rare earth elements create significant social, environmental, and human costs that need to be addressed to facilitate the energy transition sustainably. This report, the second of a series of four on this topic, examines the labor abuses, ecological degradation, and community harms linked to critical mineral mining.

Extracting and processing critical minerals and rare earth elements create significant social, environmental, and human costs that need to be addressed to facilitate the energy transition sustainably. This report, the second of a series of four on this topic, examines the labor abuses, ecological degradation, and community harms linked to critical mineral mining.

Authors

Erin McLaughlin

Erin McLaughlin Erin McLaughlin

Senior Economist, ESF Center
The Conference Board

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Alexander Heil, PhD

Alexander Heil, PhD Alexander Heil, PhD

Senior Economist
The Conference Board

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